Thieves use chemical during jewelry heist

STOCKTON - San Joaquin County sheriff's deputies are investigating a jewelry heist at DeVons Fine Jewelers in Lincoln Center.

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By The Record

Posted Nov. 27, 2012 at 12:01 AM

By The Record
Posted Nov. 27, 2012 at 12:01 AM

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STOCKTON - San Joaquin County sheriff's deputies are investigating a jewelry heist at DeVons Fine Jewelers in Lincoln Center.

Sheriff's spokesman Deputy Les Garcia said three robbers wearing dark clothing, blue bandanas and hooded sweatshirts that covered their faces and gloves entered the store, at Pacific Avenue and Douglas Road, at 11:46 a.m. and sprayed an aerosol spray into the air.

"We can't say what the spray was," Garcia said. "It could have been Mace. It could have been air freshener."

Two of the robbers used a small ax or hammer to smash two display cases, stealing three Rolex watches and several rings, deputies reported. The value of the items was unknown.

Garcia said nobody was injured and no firearms were reported.

The thieves fled in a 2007 Cadillac STS four-door sedan, which was found abandoned on Vicksburg Place in Stockton. The car was towed for processing and was identified as stolen from Richmond.

Deputies questioned people in the Vicksburg Place neighborhood but did not receive key information on the crime.